Hello! Welcome to our West Lincoln ELL Information site. Below the title are 2 tabs to help you navigate our site.
MRS. MANTONYA’S BLOG And Teacher Info is where all my posts will go from the most recent to the oldest.
STUDENT PROJECTS is where our ELL students work is showcased by grade level. Scroll over the grade level to see what each group has been working on.
Categories will take you to all my posts that are on a specific topic.
A little background about West Lincoln ELL. West Lincoln has been an ELL Center since August of 2004. The first year, we had about 65 student and 4 ELL teachers.
We now have about 155 ELL students in grades K-5 in levels 1-5. We have speakers of Spanish, Vietnamese, Nuer, Arabic, Ukrainian, Kurdish, Urdu, and Bosnian at our school. We currently have 5 ELL teachers.
Standing Ms. Prudente, Mrs. Mantonya
Sitting Ms. Leigh, Ms. Wigington, Ms. Troia
Mrs. Irwin is now teaching at Prescott and Pershing Elementary schools and Mrs Magdalena Benton is still our Spanish Bilingual Liaison here at West Lincoln.
West Lincoln ELL team
In the back row from left to right are Denise Irwin, Rebecca Wigington, Laura Leigh, Becky Mantonya. Seated are Amy Troia, Magdalena Benton (Spanish Liaision) Kara Maize.
January 2012 update. Due to growth in ELL across the district, Kara has been moved to teach at Kahoa and Brownell. She already was teaching at Elliott in the afternoons. We will miss Kara and we are thankful that she was a part of our team and school community!!